Thanksgiving Thanks

It's Thanksgiving in my house and that means family, friends and food (the 3Fs). So that means, for me at least, that sewing will be a late night thing when I am alone and can savor the joys of the day, the smiles on everyone's faces, the innocence of little children and the after dinner naps.
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.
I finished off the first of my on-going quilt block top. I hope to quilt it this weekend even though I do not have a back yet. I like how it turned out. I have started on the next one.
While at the World Quilt Show last week I bought a pressing stick called The Strip Stick @ http://thestripstick.com/. I bought the 45 inch stick. I now iron the seams of my On-going quilt block on it and it works. If you see it at a quilt show buy one. I save so much time with pressing seams.
At the World Quilt Show I took three classes. One of my classes was a Kite Class with Pat Yamin. I will take a class from her anytime. Well, I had so much fun making these I came home and added it to my leader and ender pile. How may leader and enders do I have going on?

This is my new baby. She is in good shape. I have not named her yet but I am trying out different names for her. I thought of Kitty because she purrs along like a cat. But Kitty did not seem to fit. So, the search goes on. While at the quilt show I bought a quarter inch foot for her. I also need to buy a new case. Her case was badly damaged. I saw some fabric cases but I did not buy one. Still trying to decided on a hard case or a soft case.

I have a weakness for pincushions. The bigger the better. I had seen this pattern at the Moda site http://www.unitednotions.com/fp_prairie-flower-pincushion.pdf but thought it was "yuk"
with all those pointy things sticking up. Well, if God doesn't sometimes make us eat our words/thoughts/deeds. I saw one at the World Quilt Show and had to pick my mouth up off the floor and wipe the drool of the front of my blouse. It was gorgeous. I heard it calling my name. So, the scraps from the kite quilt is going to be my pincushion. I went to my local pet store, Incredible Pets, and bought some crushed walnut shells. So, during naptime on Thanksgiving I will be handquilting. My stitches are a little tight but for a first time hexagon project I am making progress and improving with ever stitch I make. I may have to make a Grandmother's Flower Garden.

If I forgot to say Happy Thanksgiving during all my chatter I would like to say "Happy Thanksgiving everyone young and old".
Jeri